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Cutting Funding for Air Quality Alerts Puts Kids at Risk
Extreme Living: Climate Disruption Stories From Moms Coping With Wildfire Smoke, Part 2
In June 2023, smoke from Canadian wildfires blew hundreds of miles south into the U.S., and somehow this has become an annual occurrence. Moms members share smoke stories from our new climate-fueled reality.
My Climate Job: Dr. Eugene Livar, Chief Heat Officer, Arizona Department of Health Services
In 2024, the Arizona Department of Health Services created the job of Chief Heat Officer and named Dr. Eugene Livar to the role. This first-of-its-kind position is meant to tackle the state’s notoriously bad and worsening heat crisis.
Moms Tell Congress Federal Help for Disaster Recovery Should Be Guaranteed
Federal help should never be a question during or after disasters like the recent flooding and tornadoes from Ohio to Tennessee. It should be a certainty. Join Moms in telling Congress to fully fund FEMA, NOAA, and the National Weather Service.
A Dangerous Climate Harms Healthy Children. What About Kids With Cancer?
Kids who have had cancer seem to be more vulnerable to the health impacts of global warming. A new scientific article sheds light on the specific climate vulnerability of these kids and charts a path to support them.
10 Essential Ways the Federal Emergency Management Agency Protects Our Families and Communities
Though FEMA’s work is undeniably essential, it is currently threatened by deeply troubling staff and funding cuts. Here are 10 ways FEMA keeps our families safe every day—and why their work must be defended so it can continue to protect us all.
March Supermom of the Month: Amy Dishion, Oregon
March Supermom of the Month, Amy Dishion, has spent much of the last year recounting the story of her husband’s tragic death from heat stroke for audiences across the country. She shares how she remains motivated to keep opening up in service to her mission to care for her daughter and the planet.
Uprooted: How Back-to-Back Hurricanes Displaced One Family From Nicaragua to the U.S.
In November 2020, during the middle of a very active storm season, two Category 4 hurricanes slammed into Central America within two weeks. Read how one family lost their home, forcing them to make the difficult decision to try to go to the U.S.
10 Essential Ways the National Weather Service and NOAA Protect Our Families
The National Weather Service and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, play a vital role in keeping communities safe from severe weather and other environmental threats.
Uprooted: How One Family Learned There Is No Such Thing as a Climate Haven
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August 2005, this family was forced to evacuate to Houston—at 2 AM. Nearly two decades later, they relived the nightmare when Hurricane Helene hit their new hometown in Western North Carolina.
Unchecked Global Warming Would Ruin New York. EPA Chief and Would-Be Governor Lee Zeldin Does Not Care.
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA Administrator, who aspires to be governor of New York, is doing everything he can in his new job to speed up global warming, which will devastate the state that he—and I—were born and raised in.
Mental Health and Climate Change: When the Earth Moves—5 Months After Hurricane Helene
Brita Nordgren and her family are still processing what happened to their community during Hurricane Helene, the deadliest storm to hit the U.S. since Katrina. Even months later, emotions about the storm come in waves.